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From: "Morten Liebach" <m@mongers.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GnomeUI-WARNING
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 06:27:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021024042709.GA25621@mongers.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1035371144.26777.33.camel@julia.random-chaos.org.uk>

On 2002-10-23 12:05:44 +0100, Colin Morey wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 04:35, William Kenworthy wrote:
> > I dont see ssh as being a good solution in this case.  On a firewalled
> > single user machine, the complexity of going through ssh (which seems to
> > have a patchy history as regards security itself) seems like it might be
> > more of a risk (i.e., misconfiguration, security holes etc) as well as
> > the inconvenience of an unwieldy command line compared to the
> > alternative - simplicity.
> > 
> personally i find that "su" works, (without the - switch), so sudo su 
> gives me a root shell, which i can normally run X stuff from.

You'd probably want 'sudo -s'.


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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-24  4:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-18 19:50 [gentoo-dev] GnomeUI-WARNING John Nilsson
2002-10-18 18:46 ` Thomas T. Veldhouse
2002-10-18 22:04   ` [gentoo-dev] GnomeUI-WARNING Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2002-10-18 23:45 ` [gentoo-dev] GnomeUI-WARNING William Kenworthy
2002-10-19  0:03   ` Troy Dack
2002-10-19  3:35     ` William Kenworthy
2002-10-23 11:05       ` Colin Morey
2002-10-24  4:27         ` Morten Liebach [this message]
2002-10-19  3:52   ` Matthew Kennedy
2002-10-19  2:12 ` Vitalyl Kushneriuk

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